THis book will help students discover how to apply
object-oriented concepts in design and development to create
effective business applications. Using this text, students will be
able to access data using ADO.NET, integrate VB.NET with XML,
create both Windows® applications and Web services,
and much more. Finally, students will explore best practices
for deploying .NET applications and understand the power of VB.NET
in development that targets the Internet as easily as the
desktop.

What students will learn from this book

How to create new namespaces and import and alias existing
namespaces within projects

Error-handling methods using the Try...Catch...Finally
structure

How to work with data binding and update the underlying data
source in Windows applications

Methods for developing multithreaded applications

How .NET Remoting is used to exchange serialized objects
between clients and servers

The differences between Mobile Web and .NET Compact Framework
applications

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced developers who are making the
transition to VB.NET or seeking a deeper understanding of the most
common VB.NET programming tasks and concepts.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working
programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers,
developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they
address the issues technology professionals face every day. They
provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new
technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.